Improvement in dress-makers  squares



J. F. WINGATE.` Dress Makers Square.

No. 204,120. Patented lvlayv21, 1878.

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JULIA F. WINGATE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRESS-MAKERS SQUARES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 204,120, dated May 21, 1878 application filed September 29, 187 7.

l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIA F. WINGA'IE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Squares or Imreadilyand easily placed in position upon the pattern or material, so as to allow the several measures and points to be indicated and marked as a guide to draw the several lines by, whether they be straight or curved, as hereinafter more fully described and set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l is a plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the reverse side, showing the shorter arm and tongue partially vfolded or closed in one position when in use; and Fig. 3 shows the same closed.

A represents the longer arm, which is graduated into inches and the usual subdivisions, and has marked thereon the word Scale-. front. To the left-hand end of this arm is jointed or pivoted, by a rule-joint, P, the arm B, which is also furnished with the usual gradations of inches and subdivisions, and is provided with a short adjustable and sliding linger-piece, C, which is pivoted to the arm B by a pin, which moves in the' slot E as desired, so as to allow the straight edge of the fingerpiece to be set in line with any particular gradation-mark between the figures indicating seven and eight inches on the shorter arm B, thus indicating the length of the shoulder-seam, and the adjustable movable finger piece C, its curved side the arm size, its straight edge having the gradation-marks of inches and subdivisions, commencing at the edge of the arm B, and extending toward its outer end, as l shown. This finger-piece C is constructed so as to be folded within a groove in the edge of the arm B at its outer end, so as to be below the line of the edge of the same.

Near the left-hand end or corner of the longer arm A, and commencing about three inches from the end or corner, at the'outer edge from the rule-joint, I make a scale-front, consisting of a double series of figures indicating gradations of about one-eighth, or seven to the inch. These are indicated by the figures 17 to 45, successively, as heretofore.,

At the adjoining corner outer edge of the shorter arm B is arranged a scale-back, commencingabout two and one-half inches from the corner at the hinge end, and is graduated into spaces of about seven to the inch, and indicated by the figures from 19 to47, representing so many inches by tape-measure, as hereto-v fore employed.

On the reverse side of this square or implement, as shown in Fig. 2, the long armAhas the usual inch gradations and figures and subdivisions, commencing at the joint corner outer edge, While the shorter arm B has marks, (indicated by the letter B,) four in number, used in marking the biases; and upon the opposite or outer edge is a line marked fL, and one marked W L, also a waist-scale back, graduated into spaces of about six to the inch, and indicated by iigures from 18 to 36, inclusive, representing in spaces nineteen numbers or inches, as used heretofore. Across the corner of the rule-joint is marked an oblique line, called the top bias-line.7 By means of the jointed parts the several measures and points` are more quickly made, and when not in use permit the square to be folded for transportation.

vHaving thus described my invention, what I claim isl. The above-described dress-makers square, consisting of the arms A B, rule-joint P, and adjustable sliding pivoted finger-piece C, constructed substantially as and for the purposes set forth. l

2. The combination of the adjustable sliding pivoted iinger -piece C with the arms A B of a dress-'makers square, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.'

JULIA F. WINGATEQ Witnesses SvLvENUs WALKER, B. P. CLEMENT. 

